§ 347. Property for state thruways, bridges thereon, and other thruway\nuses and purposes to be acquired by appropriation. 1. Notwithstanding\nany inconsistent provisions of this chapter or any other law, general or\nspecial, any and all property necessary for the construction,\nreconstruction and maintenance of state thruways and bridges thereon,\nshall be acquired pursuant to the eminent domain procedure law.\n 2. The commissioner of transportation, for the people of the state of\nNew York, shall acquire pursuant to the eminent domain procedure law any\nproperty or interest therein, necessary for any and all purposes\nconnected with the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of the\nthruway system of the state of New York, including the acquisition of\nproperty for drains, ditches, spoil banks, gravel pits, stone quarries;\nalso for the removal of obstructions, improvement of sight distances;\nalso for acquisition of property for the reconstruction of existing\nhighway-railroad separation structures upon incorporation into a state\nthruway of an existing highway or portion thereof of which they form a\npart, and for the separation of thruway-railroad grades on newly\nlaid-out thruways; and for other purposes to improve safety conditions\non the thruway routes.\n 3. The commissioner of transportation shall cause to be prepared an\naccurate acquisition map of any property which he may deem necessary for\npurposes connected with such thruway projects or of any property in and\nto which he may deem the acquisition or exercise of an easement,\ninterest or right to be necessary for such purposes, indicating and\ndescribing in each case the particular easement, interest or right. On\nthe approval of such acquisition map by the commissioner of\ntransportation, he shall acquire such property, easements, interests or\nrights pursuant to the eminent domain procedure law.\n 4. If the commissioner shall determine, prior to the filing of such\ncopy of the acquisition map in the office of the county clerk as\naforesaid, that changes, alterations or modifications of such\ndescription and map as filed in the main office of the New York state\nthruway authority should be made, he or she shall, subject to the\nprovisions in article two of the eminent domain procedure law if\napplicable, direct the preparation of an amended acquisition map, either\nby preparing a new map or by making changes on the original tracing of\nsuch map, with a notation indicating such changes. On the approval of\nsuch amended map by the commissioner, it shall be filed in the main\noffice of the New York state thruway authority in the same manner as the\noriginal map was filed and the amended map shall thereupon in all\nrespects and for all purposes supersede the map previously filed.\n 5. If the commissioner shall determine prior to filing a copy of the\nmap in the office of the county clerk or register as provided in section\nfour hundred two of the eminent domain procedure law, that such map\nshould be withdrawn, he or she shall file a certificate of withdrawal in\nthe offices of the New York state thruway authority and department of\nlaw. Upon the filing of such certificate of withdrawal, the map to which\nit refers shall be cancelled and all rights thereunder shall cease and\ndetermine.\n 6. The commissioner of transportation shall deliver to the attorney\ngeneral a copy of such acquisition map whereupon it shall be the duty of\nthe attorney general to advise and certify to the commissioner of\ntransportation the names of the owners of the property, easements,\ninterests or rights described in the said acquisition map, including the\nowners of any right, title or interest therein pursuant to the\nrequirements of section four hundred three of the eminent domain\nprocedure law.\n 7. If, at or after the vesting of title to such property in the people\nof the state of New York in the manner provided in the eminent domain\nprocedure law, the commissioner of
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